Mud in Your Eye

I just spent the past couple days riding new Can-Am ATVs through some very scenic West Virginia terrain. With West Virginia ATV Tours as our guide, our crew slogged through puddles, climbed mountains, forded rivers and bounced off rocks and roots. During it all we abused six machines from three different model lines, the Can-Am Renegade, Outlander and Outlander Max. All of them came through with flying colors even though we pushed past their, and our, limits on a few occasions.

The whole ATV tour gig is pretty sweet. All we had to do was show up with a good attitude and owner and guide Stephen handles all the rest. We spent our first day checking out the semi-public/semi-private Burning Rock Off-Road Park. It was definitely a cool place and with a recent hare scramble race, we even got to hit some cut-in race course. Next was a ride out to Hatfield-McCoy to one of the six available trailheads. The trails are great but the fact that the towns are all so ATV friendly really makes it unique. Riding right down the highway is totally legal within the area and it it’s really convenient to hit the gas station and local market without having to load up the trailer.

The whole project was a quick stop en route to our current destination at the MotorcycleUSA.com Snowshoe GNCC event. Watch for more updates from WV’s alpine region in the upcoming days.